A project on social media marketing by IInd year students of Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies, explaining it by citing examples from Indian context.
we've tried to put it as simply as possible.
2. Introduction
Attention ‘online’ .
Earned Media instead of
Paid Media.
Easily accessible to anyone
with an internet connection
Inexpensive form of
marketing
Different from Traditional
Marketing
Leverages on Human
Behaviour.
3. Timeline
1971
1978
1985
1993
1997
1998
1999
• First Email Delivered.
• BBS ( Bulletin Board System ) for sharing info with friends, making
announcements. A rudimentary virtual community took birth
• AOL ( America Online) was born.
• WWW technology was given to the world.
• The web 'hits' one million sites, Blogging begins.
• Sixdegrees.com making profiles and friendlists. AOL IM is here.
• Google comes in as a search Engine and Index.
• FriendsReunited, the UK service to catch up with school pals.
4. Timeline
2000
• 70 million computers connected.
• Frindster , social networking service in the US, reached 3 million users in just 3 months.
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
• Myspace came into existence as friendster's clone.
• LinkedIN, social networking for business led professionals arrived.
• Facebook@ Harvard.
• Podcasting on web.
• Flickr photo sharing came in along with Digg.
• Bebo, blogging social networking kicked in.
• Newscorp purchased Myspace.
• Youtube initiated and the web reaches a humungus figure of 8 BILLION pages.
• Twitter, the microblogging site launched.
• Google had indexed more than 25 billion web pages, 400 million queries per day, 1.3 billion images, and more than a billion
Usenet messages.
• Facebook launched its Beacon advertising system which exposed user purchasing activity.
• Iphone was launched, multimedia internet smartphones kicked in.
5. Timeline
2008
2009
• Facebook attains the popularity status. Hits maximum active users and tries to unsuccesfully
buy twitter.
• Citizen journalists everywhere were electrified when Twitter broke a hard news story about a plane crash in the Hudson River.
• Unfriend was the word of the year by Oxford and Facebook gained the top status as social media site.
2010
• To compete with Facebook and Twitter, Google launched Buzz,
• The Democratic National Committee advertised for a social networks manager to oversee President Barack Obama's accounts
on Facebook, Twitter and MySpace.
2011
• Raising privacy concerns with rising content sharing.
• Ping social networking for music by Apple.
• 1/4th of Earth's population, ONLINE.
2012
• The top ten social networks are Facebook, Blogger, Twitter, Wordpress, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Google+, Tumblr, MySpace and
Wikia.
• Advertisers look to social "likes" to enhance brand visibility.
• Facebook hits the billion mark.
2013
• With ever increasing users on every social media website and new entrants like google plus hitting
430 million user plus margins, Brands switch to sponsored options, share your stories option to
capture , grow and retain customers.
6. Platforms
Perfect –One touch
media to connect.
Social networking apps.
More Frequently used.
QR codes – to visit
websites online & check
out their page.
Twitter
Social Networking Sites & Blogs
Mobile Phones
One to One ‘Personal
'Interaction
Build Relations
Increases total Outreach
Act as e-Word Of Mouth
Helps reach out better
through content shared.
8. Tactics
Twitter
•Promotion on an Individual Level.
•Link to website, Facebook Pages, Instagram etc.
•Users spend more time with product online.
•Loyal Connection .
•Real Time Promotion and beings in Customer.
9. Tactics
Facebook
•More detailed than twitter
•Photos, Videos, Descriptions and Testimonials ( with it’s
comment service)
•Top service to promote
•Share feature.
10. Tactics
Foursquare
•Location based social network.
•Allows check in at places.
•Good strategy to increase footfall and retain customers.
•Incentives for recurring customers to increase visit
•Ideal for restaurants ,cafés, hotels ( businesses with physical existence)
11. Tactics
Google+
•Addition to Facebook features and integrating google search engine.
•It’s basically your spot on the world map.
•Enjoys integration with adwords, adsense ,blogger, google maps and
other cool things that make google awesome.
12. Tactics
Instagram
•Free photo and video sharing social network.
•Personalised mini-media only blog.
•Allows Hashtag inetgration.
•Links photos with everything from facebook to foursquare.
13. Tactics
Blogs
•Personalised descriptive social media space.
•Linked with all social media forms.
•Scope for one to one interaction.
•Promotional technique for customers, sharing behind the scene
stories, perfect techniques to keep and grow customers.
14. Tactics
LinkedIN
•Professional Business Related Networking.
•Businesses create Professional Profiles.
•Online Resumes for professionals.
•Business Index, spam free.
•Used for recruitments.
15. Tactics
YouTube
•Advertisements used to target audience that reflects their taste.
•Ads are in sync with the type of video searched.
•Eg: you search for a doggy training video, and a pedigree ad
emerges, and you wish to visit their website and purchase some?
20. Examples
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi was one of the first, if not the
first, mainstream politician to realise the potential of these technological
developments.
Modi took to the internet around the same time the youth of India did.
Initially, it started with his website which highlighted important
government programmes and initiatives.
As innovations became available for use, his social media accounts,
YouTube channel and ‘subscriptions’ options were quickly created and a
content-linking mechanism in this ‘digital structure’, if you will, was put
in place
Modi’s enormous popularity, dismally absent in mainstream media
coverage, resulted in lakhs of followers expressing their admiration
through their keyboards.
In a blog titled ‘Making a Difference through Social Media’, Modi
expressed gratitude for what he learns from these “wonderful people” on
social media.
21. Examples
As the 2012 Gujarat Vidhan Sabha elections approached, the
‘digital structure’ was readied and popularised.
While traditional campaigning was irreplaceable, what Modi
saw with his digital structure was something far-sighted – the
ability to tap the first-time voter and the youth in the youngest
nation of the world. He knew where he would find them in their
free time – hooked to emails and social media sites instead of
prime-time television debates; on their laptops, phones or
tablets and not at political rallies. Thus began the season of
active campaigning on internet and social media